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a a a the the Editions THE COURIER -JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. 3 WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 12. 1970 A 15 Hoosiers Told U.S. Hopes to Stem Migration From Farms By PATRICK SIDDONS Courier.

-Journal 1 Times Staff Writer NASHVILLE, V. Smith is one man who doesn't laugh when he hears words to that old song, "How're You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm. Smith is the chief executive of the Farmers Home Administration, the federal agency charged with developing the economic resources of rural America and improving the quality of rural living. The agency, whose. initials often get confused with Federal Housing Administration, is in the money-lending business, but in areas where the other FHA doesn't operate.

Smith is in Indiana this week for some of the sessions the three state meeting of the Indiana Farmers Home Administration at Nashville's Ramada Inn. Hot Meals Brighten Lives Of Elderly By WARREN BUCKLER Courier -Journal Times Staff Writer Hot meals-and a lot of companyrived about lunchtime Monday at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Buckner in Jeffersonville.

Mr. Buckner, who is blind and gets around with the help of a wheel chair, spoke animatedly for awhile about the events leading up to his decision to become a minister many years ago. And then, after the visitors left, he and his wife, who is 82 and has been partly paralyzed by a stroke, settled down for a meal of Salisbury steak, green beans, potatoes and corn bread. The elderly couple participates in "Meals on Wheels," a program started this week Clark County Community Action Agency (CAA). A volunteer worker will deliver a' hot meal five days a week to Buckners' home at 710 Short Jackson the, Many Eat Little Among the visitors were Mrs.

Lee Doris Butcher, director of "Meals on Wheels," and Herman Street of 109 Myrtle, a truck driver who has volunteered to help out during his off-time. Mrs. Butcher, a mother of three and full-time student at Indiana University Southeast, explained that the program is designed to provide balanced meals for elderly or disabled persons who are unable to prepare food for themselves. Recipients are asked to pay 50 cents per meal if they can afford it. The meals are prepared by a downtown Jeffersonville restaurant.

"We have found that many, of these people end up in the hospital because they are only eating cereal or other foods At the opening day banquet last night -at which the Indiana farm family of the year, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gault of Greensburg Rt. 5, was honored Smith said his agency this year will lend more than $2.4 billion in its various programs, including some new ones aimed at serving the credit needs of non-farm people whose adjusted gross income is $8,000 or less. He told his audience of about 100 that the main goal of all the agency's credit programs is to "generate development of the economic and social resources of rural areas in order to stem-or reverse--the migration of farmers and rural people into urban centers." He cited the dual functions of the programs: giving an opportunity to young Pa farmers "who choose agriculture by choice and not by default" and permitting "those small and part-time farmers who choose rural life as the better alternative to the impaction and tension of life to contribute to the progress the rural comcity, munity." Smith, a former Oklahoma congressman, is a former active farmer who now is a farm owner.

He spoke last night of the 650,000 young part-time farm operators who have substantial off They income. contribute less than 15 per cent to the over-all farm production, Smith said. But he added that "their economic contribution to the rural economy is substantial and their social importance to the rural community is invaluable." Many of these young people, and older farmers with little training for other would be forced to move to urban areas, he said, were it not for private or public lending institutions that could help them stay on the land, do Staff Photo Herman Street stopped to chat with the Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd W.

Buckner. that don't need preparation," she said. "In some cases they are hardly eating anything at all. she added, "It's hazardous for an elderly person to work around a stove." The "Meals on Wheels" volunteers are encouraged to spend a little time visiting and talking with the elderly persons, many of whom are lonely and don't have many visitors, Mrs. Butcher said.

Mrs. Butcher will be delivering most of the meals herself until Sept. 1. By then, she hopes to have recruited 15 volunteers in Jeffersonville, including some of her fellow students from IUS, five in Charlestown. Each will be to asked" help out one day a week for an hour or two.

She is also looking for eligible recipients, and expects to sign up 25 in Jeffer- sonville and 10 in Charlestown. But funds will be available to help a greater number if there is a demand, she feels. Prospective volunteers and recipients can contact her either at home or at the CAA office on National Avenue. The program was tried on an experimental basis in March, and the need turned out to be considerable, according to Miss Mary Ann Strehle, CAA deputy director. The poverty agency recently received a grant from the U.S.

Office of Economic Opportunity for emergency food and medical services. This will provide funds for "Meals Wheels" during the nine months remaining in the agency's fiscal year. The OE0 funds cover the difference between the cost of the meals and the recipients' payments. Bruce Hoblitzell, Former Louisville Mayor, Dies Bruce Hoblitzell former mayor of Louisville and a former sheriff of Jefferson County, died at 4 a.m, yesterday at his home St. James Court.

He was 83. He had suffered a stroke, in December 1962 and had been bedridden a at his time since then. Known in all corners of Louisville as "Mr. Hobby," Hoblitzell served his community in countless ways. Before serving as mayor from 1957 to 1961, he had been Jefferson County sheriff; president of the Louisville Board Trade, of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, of the Lions Club, of the Louisville Automobile Club, of the Better Business Bureau, and of the Louisville and Kentucky Real Estate boards; a board member of the Metropolitan Sewer District, a deacon in Highland Presbyterian Church and potentate of Kosair Temple.

Left Budget in Good Shape When he left the mayor's office in November 1961, Hoblitzell said in a newspaper interview that he was proud that as mayor he had been his own man. "I don't maintain I was always right," he said, "but I only had to satisfy one guy--the guy I looked at in the mirror every morning." His administration was not a spectacular one, with no dramatic projects or programs, and with things done without fanfare. he left the city's operating budget in better shape than it had been in many years by transferring to the state and county programs that cost about $2 million a year. Hoblitzell was proud of his reputation as being a tight man with the dollar and realized that this is seldom the road to political popularity. "I have caught hell about not spending money," he said.

"But I have always maintained there were just so many dollars in the kitty." Debt of any kind disturbed him, probably because he struggled in the Great Depression of the 1930s to pay off business debts. Proud of Accomplishments As he left City Hall to return to his real-estate and insurance business, Hoblitzell ticked off some of the things in his administration he was proud of: Giving the University of Louisville more than $6 million, installing street lights to make Louisville the best-lighted city in America, resurfacing streets and building streets to standards, developing expressways, and smoothing race relations. Other accomplishments he listed were the addition of 200 acres of parks and playgrounds to the city system, repairing or razing substandard housing, expenditure major amounts of money of to improve drainage and good cooperation between city and county governments. The genial mayor with the booming voice made it a practice to see everyone who came to City Hall looking for him. His office was a study in informality.

He even talked to any and all who telephoned his home, and refused to get an unlisted number. Hoblitzell did not like politics. He viewed office-holding as a civic responsibility and did not use the political patronage at his disposal. "I am a loyal Democrat, though I don't Southern Indiana Deaths CHARLESTOWN-Mrs. Eunice Harper Huff, 68, of 312 Spring Street, died Tuesday morning at Extendicare Nursing Home, Clarksville.

She was a member of the Charlestown Church of Christ. Survivors include three sons, Earl Huff, Tompkinsville, Louis R. Huff, Utica; Jesse H. Huff, Jeffersonville; six daughters, Mrs. Herbert Brown, Fountain Run, Mrs.

Frank Wallace, Tampa, Mrs. Oakley Simpson, Shively, Mrs. Robert Hunt, Otisco; Mrs. Charles Hays, New Albany; Mrs. Raymond Crick, Jeffersonville; 34 grandchildren; 18 Funeral, Grayson great grandchildren Funeral Home.

Burial, Charlestown Cemetery. JEFFERSONVILLE Lawrence C. Rush, 65, of 800 Cambridge Clarksville, former owner of Rush Tax Service here and a former justice of the peace in Jeffersonville Township, died at 3:20 a.m. Tuesday at Clark County Memorial Hospital. was a native of Columbus, and lived in Jeffersonville for 45 years.

some farming and perhaps work at an outside job. "Rural areas," Smith said, "would lose young, self sufficient people who are adapted rural life. Urban areas would fall heir to unwanted, ill-adapted and largely untrained people who add to the city congestion and most probably add to the unemployment lines and welfare rolls." Smith sees that as the first ta provide a pool of capable, experienced young farmers able to handle the responsibility of commercial food production." But he also sees as a secondary role that of providing a "green belt" "a buffer zone around burgeoning small towns. between residence and commercial agriculture." This will be something suited to the small farmer, he said, who through his smaller operation can provide the townspeople with the opportunity to know and enjoy the countryside with such enterprises as riding stables, hiking areas, fishing spots and vegetable and egg production. In a news conference that preceded the banquet address, Smith pointed out that his agency "is not a welfare program." He said the loans are repaid with interest and he added that the number of defaults is minimal.

He said in the news conference that 60 per cent of this nation's substandard housing is in rural areas. "But this is not easily recognized," Smith said. "Most of the owners remain calm. They don't riot or protest, and thus they don't earn much attention from the news media." Last year, he said, rural housing loans totaled more than $15 million in Indiana. "But.

people aren't going to move out to the country just to breathe the fresh air," he said. "They have to have jobs, and industry has moved out to those areas where rural water systems are in operation." The financing of rural water systems and waste disposal systems is another Farmers Home administration program. Last year more than $7 million in such programs were started in Indiana. And yesterday, as another activity on his first official visit to Indiana, Smith spoke ground-breaking the Brown County water system, which when completed will serve 600 families, six schools and four churches. He said at the dedication 32,000 communities in the United States are without adequate disposal systems, and 44,000 without adequate water systems.

He added that it would take $11 billion to alleviate those inadequacies. Imbalances Charged Grand Jury Urged To Probe Activities Precinct Realigning Of Ku Klux Klan NAACP and the Indiana regional office A League of B'Nai B'rith. Robert Gordon, director of the AntiDefamation League office, said "the tendency toward violence, terrorism and harassment by klansmen" has increased in this area. Gordon said Klan literature "is circulating in growing quantity throughout the state" and called it "divisive, insulting, demeaning and inflammatory hate literature of the worst kind." The groups' statement to the Marion County prosecutors' office said the constitutionality of Indiana's 1947 AntiRacketeering-in-Hate statute had been questioned but they thought it should be applied and tested. INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-A grand jury Called For in Clark probe urged of Ku yesterday Klux by Klan the activities Indianapolis was Urban League, the Greater By STEVE FAGAN Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer Clark County Democratic Chairman Daniel F.

Donahue intends to call for a local reapportionment to correct what he calls population imbalances in the county's 52 voter precincts. Donahue said in an interview that he will ask for the formation of a bipartisan committee of three Republicans and three Democrats to study the feasibility and legality of reapportioning the precinctsa task that hasn't been undertaken since the current precinct lines were drawn in 1960. Before anything can be done on the redistricting, Donahue said, a proposal Robinson-Nugent Named In Complaint by NLRB CINCINNATI (AP)-Robinson-Nugent, of New Albany, was named yesterday in an unfair labor practices complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint was based on charges filed by the United Automobile Workers Union. It charged company officials with threatening employes with layoffs, duced working hours and plant closure if the union was selected as a collective bargaining agent.

Another charge was that in June, Virginia Lloyd and Diana Lassley were laid off and Jane Crozier Taylor was discharged because of their union activities. A hearing on the complaint will be held at Louisville, Oct. 20. studied engineering, house design and English at the YMCA Night School for 11 years. In 1951, Hoblitzell was named the Advertising Club of.

Louisville's "man of the year" and in, 1956 he received a brotherhood award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He had been a director of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, the Salvation Army, the Louisville Industrial Foundation, Kentucky Society for Crippled Children, and the Louisville Gas Electric Co. He was a member of Abraham Masonic Lodge, Kosair Shrine, and the Scottish and the York rites. Formed Own Firm in 1912 From 1906 to 1912 he worked for the Kentucky Heating then formed the McClellan-Hoblitzell Realty Co. with J.

A. McClellan in 1912. That firm was dissolved in 1919 and became Bruce Hoblitzell Realtors and Insurance Agency. Hoblitzell was a member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. The present mayor, Frank W.

Burke, and the Louisville Board of Aldermen, in a resolution passed by the aldermen last night, expressed "their profound and sincere regret upon the loss" of the former mayor, and extended sympathy to the family. "He was certainly a great public servant," County Judge Todd Hollenbach commented yesterday. "His contribution as a citizen was as great as his contribution as an elected public official." Hoblitzell was married for 60 years to the former Irene Oatey Forbes, who survives him. Other survivors are a son, Bruce Hoblitzell two daughters, Mrs. Leo K.

Broecker and Mrs. Charles S. Greenwood 11 grandchildren and 13 funeral will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow great at Highland Presbyterian Church, 1001 Cherokee Road, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery. The body is at Pearson's, 1310 Expressions of sympathy may take the form of gifts to Kosair Crippled Children Hospital.

will have to be given to the county commissioners, who must in turn, call for the appointment of the study committee. Donahue said he believes the need for some sort of countywide precinct reapportionment became "clearly evident" during the May primary election. "Some of the precinct polling places had almost no voters, and voting machines were wasted, while other precincts had long lines, and some voters became discouraged because of the wait," he said. The Democratic chairman said he can see the situation getting worse unless something is done about reapportioning the precincts before the 1972 election. Over the last few years there has been some precinct reshuffling, most of which had been done on a geographical basis, Donahue said.

He said, however, that this type of piecemeal redistricting is an unsatisfactory method of meeting a potentially serious problem. He feels reapportionment must be done on the basis of actual population shifts and predicted shift trends as indicated by the 1970 census, rather than relying merely on precinct geographical size. Donahue pointed out that the county's population has increased by more than 4.000 since the 1960 census, "and yet nothing has been done toward a comrevision of the precinct balance." The Jeffersonville downtown area, Donahue feels, is a prime example of "what is wrong with the current precinct setup." Much of Jeffersonville's center city--an area that was once divided into some of the county's smallest. yet most populous precincts- 1960 been heavily affected by urban renewal, Donahue said. Donahue said he hopes to enlist the aid of county Republican Chairman James E.

Robinson in presenting the reapportionment proposal to the commissioners. Slayer Sentenced to Life FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP)-Special Judge Charles R. LeMaster sentenced Arthur J. Thomas, of Fort Wayne to life imprisonment Monday the fatal shooting of Judith E.

Garrett, 24, last Oct. 24. Accused Slayer of Mother Ordered Committed by Court Special to The Courier -Journal BEDFORD, Ind. Leon Norris, 47, a former mental patient accused of the knife slaying of his mother and the wounding of his father, is to be committed to a mental institution. An order for Norris' commitment was issued yesterday by Lawrence Circuit Court, which said it had been determined that Norris does not have comprehension sufficient either to understand the proceedings against him or to make a defense against the charge against him.

Norris was accused of the knife slaying of his mother, Mrs. Vida Norris, 66, at the Norris home in Bedford May 16. His father, Urmett Norris, was seriously wounded, but has recovered. Norris resided with his parents. go around yakking about it all the time," he said.

Two framed sayings hung on the walls of his office in City Hall. One, by Henry Clay, proclaimed: "Government is a trust and officers of government are trustees, and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people." The other was a creed adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous, an organization Hoblitzell admired and helped. It read: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." When he was elected sheriff in 1953, he got more votes than any other candidate here for public office that year. Being sheriff was a passion with him, and he brought many innovations to the jail. Hospital Plaque Honors Him Hoblitzell was president of Kosair Crippled Children Hospital's board of governors for 30 years and chairman of the hospital's annual fund-raising picnic.

A plaque bearing his likeness is a part of the scene at the hospital, memorializing his custom of visiting the hospital each Sunday after church. He made a round of the wards, blowing up balloons for the patients. He himself suffered from crippling arthritis that often made walking painful. But he didn't complain. A text on the plaque reads: "In honor of Bruce Hoblitzell.

'He who stoops to help a crippled Evidence of his devoted service is about you; look around." J. T. Metcalf, president of the state Commission for Handicapped Children, who spoke at the plaque unveiling, said: "Were it within the power of those assembled here today to pay honor to this gentleman it would be our privilege and pleasure to confer upon him the honorary degree of doctor of humanities summa cum laude." Hoblitzell, who peered at the world with kindly eyes through gold-rimmed glasses, muttered in reply: "I'm lost, son, I'm lost." The plaque was a surprise to him. In May 1961, Hoblitzell was given the Kentucky Military Institute Alumni Association's humanitarian award for his efforts in helping crippled children. He was a 1905 graduate of the school at Lyndon.

Born in Louisville in 1887, Hoblitzell attended duPont Manual High School, and Hoosier Wins Medal For Rescuing Child PITTSBURGH (AP) The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission yesterday gave its bronze medal to Phillip S. McDonald, 20, Indianapolis, for jumping into an icy Indianapolis creek to rescue a small boy. William K. Willock, 34, Homestead, also received the award for saving a woman from a burning car in Indianapolis. Both incidents occurred in 1968.

State Adjutant General Now Has Two-Star Rank INDIANAPOLIS (AP) John N. Owens, state adjutant general, was wear. ing a second star on his collar yesterday. The U.S. Senate confirmed his promotion from brigadier to major general Monday.

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LOUISVILLE PERMA-STONE CO. 990 E. Breckinridge St. Call 582-2474 Now-24-Hour Service He owned and operated his business here for 26 years. He was a past president of the Jeffersonville Kiwanis Club, and past president of the Clark County Community Chest, a member of Clark Lodge No.

40 the Murat Temple Shrine in Indianapolis, and the Scottish Rite. He is survived his wife, Mrs. Gladys Clark Rush; a daughter, Mrs. Frank A. Sample of Jeffersonville; and three grandchildren.

Thursday at 2 p.m., Coots Funeral Home. Burial, Walnut Ridge Cemetery. The Clark Lodge No. 40 will conduct graveside services. Indianapolis Soldier Is Killed in Action WASHINGTON (AP)-Army Pfc.

William A. Craig, Indianapolis, has been killed in action in Southeast Asia, relatives were notified yesterday. Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louise H.

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